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German MEP: We should have campaigned against Brexit

Elmar Brok, a senior MEP with the centre-right German CDU party, said it was a "mistake" for pro-EU politicians not to have been involved in the campaign before the Brexit referendum. "We should have faced the lies of the Brexit advocates much more aggressively," Brok said in a FAZ newspaper interview published Tuesday. He also expressed support for a second referendum on the UK's future.

This is a political crisis unprecedented in Austria since the war: the resignation of the vice-chancellor, firing of the interior minister, the mass resignation of FPO ministers, a snap election, and a no-confidence vote in the Austrian parliament on Monday.

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A planned high-speed railway connection through the Alps between Italy and France has been highly controversial for decades and is pitting governing Italian coalition parties against each other. But the European Commission insists it must go ahead.